Health & Safety

• Hand sanitizer stations are widely available across the campus.
• Touchless faucets in restrooms. 
• Amplified cleaning and sanitation practices.

The most important thing that we can do to prevent virus transmission among our school community is to not bring it onto campus in the first place. Students and educators will be expected and asked to stay home if they are exhibiting symptoms associated with COVID-19.

We will follow the isolation and quarantine guidelines set by the CDC. 

Positive Cases

Regardless of vaccination status, you should isolate from others when you have COVID-19. You should also isolate if you are sick and suspect that you have COVID-19 but do not yet have test results. If your results are positive, follow the full isolation recommendations below. If your results are negative, you can end your isolation.

If you test positive for COVID-19, stay home for at least 5 days and isolate from others in your home. You are likely most infectious during these first 5 days. Continue to wear a mask to complete 10 days from onset of symptoms or positive test. 

End isolation based on how serious your COVID-19 symptoms were.

Isolation Protocol 

If you had no symptoms

You may end isolation after day 5.

If you had symptoms

You may end isolation after day 5 if:

• You are fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication)
• Your symptoms are improving

If you still have fever or your other symptoms have not improved, continue to isolate until they improve.

If you had moderate illness (if you experienced shortness of breath or had difficulty breathing), or severe illness (you were hospitalized) due to COVID-19-, or you have a weakened immune system, you need to isolate through day 10.

If you had severe illness or have a weakened immune system, consult your doctor before ending isolation. Ending isolation without a viral test may not be an option for you.

View full guidance 

Exposure to Someone with COVID-19

View all scenarios outlined by the CDC. 

If a student, or a member of the student’s household, is confirmed positive for COVID-19, we ask that the family inform the school immediately. Please submit a copy of lab results to School Nurse Angie Shell by completing the online form.   Our school nurse will work families on an individual basis to determine whether quarantine is needed if a family member contracts the virus. This decision will be based on guidance from the Health Department and the family doctor.   A notification letter will be sent to the impacted Gibbons community. The privacy of the infected individual will not be violated.

Report a positive case